ggrepel (version 0.4)

geom_label_repel: Repulsive textual annotations.

Description

geom_text_repel adds text directly to the plot. geom_label_repel draws a rectangle underneath the text, making it easier to read. The text labels repel away from each other and away from the data points.

Usage

geom_label_repel(mapping = NULL, data = NULL, stat = "identity",
  parse = FALSE, ..., box.padding = unit(0.25, "lines"),
  label.padding = unit(0.25, "lines"), point.padding = unit(0, "lines"),
  label.r = unit(0.15, "lines"), label.size = 0.25, force = 1,
  max.iter = 2000, na.rm = FALSE, show.legend = NA, inherit.aes = TRUE)
geom_text_repel(mapping = NULL, data = NULL, stat = "identity",
  parse = FALSE, ..., box.padding = unit(0.25, "lines"),
  point.padding = unit(0, "lines"), segment.color = "#666666",
  segment.size = 0.5, force = 1, max.iter = 2000, na.rm = FALSE,
  show.legend = NA, inherit.aes = TRUE)

Arguments

mapping

Set of aesthetic mappings created by aes or aes_. If specified and inherit.aes = TRUE (the default), is combined with the default mapping

data

A data frame. If specified, overrides the default data frame defined at the top level of the plot.

stat

The statistical transformation to use on the data for this layer, as a string.

parse

If TRUE, the labels will be parsed into expressions and displayed as described in ?plotmath

...

other arguments passed on to layer. There are three types of arguments you can use here:

• Aesthetics: to set an aesthetic to a fixed value, likecolor = "red"orsize = 3

box.padding

Amount of padding around bounding box. Defaults to unit(0.25, "lines").

label.padding

Amount of padding around label. Defaults to 0.25 lines.

point.padding

Amount of padding around labeled point. Defaults to unit(0, "lines").

label.r

Radius of rounded corners. Defaults to 0.15 lines.

label.size

Size of label border, in mm.

force

Force of repulsion between overlapping text labels. Defaults to 1.

max.iter

Maximum number of iterations to try to resolve overlaps. Defaults to 2000.

na.rm

If FALSE (the default), removes missing values with a warning. If TRUE silently removes missing values.

show.legend

logical. Should this layer be included in the legends? NA, the default, includes if any aesthetics are mapped. FALSE never includes, and TRUE always includes.

inherit.aes

If FALSE, overrides the default aesthetics, rather than combining with them. This is most useful for helper functions that define both data and aesthetics and shouldn't inherit behaviour from the default plot specification, e.g.

segment.color

Color of the line segment connecting the data point to the text labe. Defaults to #666666.

segment.size

Width of segment, in mm.

<code>geom_label_repel</code>

Currently geom_label_repel does not support the rot parameter and is considerably slower than geom_text_repel. The fill aesthetic controls the background colour of the label.

Alignment

The repulsive geoms reposition text labels to avoid overlap, so the following parameters are not supported:

• hjust
• vjust
• nudge_x
• nudge_y
• position
• check_overlap

Details

These geoms are based on geom_text and geom_label. See the documentation for those functions for more details. Differences from those functions are noted here.

Text labels have height and width, but they are physical units, not data units. The amount of space they occupy on that plot is not constant in data units: when you resize a plot, labels stay the same size, but the size of the axes changes. Currently, the text labels will not be repositioned upon resizing a plot. This may change in future releases.

Examples

p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, label = rownames(mtcars)))

# Avoid overlaps by repelling text labels
p + geom_text_repel()
# Labels with background
p + geom_label_repel()

p + geom_text_repel(family = "Times New Roman",
  box.padding = unit(0.5, "lines"))

# Add aesthetic mappings
p + geom_text_repel(aes(colour = factor(cyl)))
p + geom_label_repel(aes(fill = factor(cyl)), colour = "white", fontface = "bold")

p + geom_text_repel(aes(size = wt))
# Scale height of text, rather than sqrt(height)
p + geom_text_repel(aes(size = wt)) + scale_radius(range = c(3,6))

# You can display expressions by setting parse = TRUE.  The
# details of the display are described in ?plotmath, but note that
# geom_text_repel uses strings, not expressions.
p + geom_text_repel(aes(label = paste(wt, "^(", cyl, ")", sep = "")),
  parse = TRUE)

# Add a text annotation
p +
  geom_text_repel() +
  annotate("text", label = "plot mpg vs. wt", x = 2, y = 15, size = 8, colour = "red")